It goes: life  difficult times  and mad crimes
 Some pay the price  while others refine
 Blessed are those who struggle    God loves you
 And Wisdom is the principle thing for Kings and Queens
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 Many alliance will end  it's like a sad song
 from a violin  trapped like Daniel's in the Lion's Den
 Tryin to pie rce the iron skin  of Leviathan
 Souls blowin in the violent winds
 God help us, if we die in sign, I hear the trials
 in the cries of men, that's when the riot begins
 Like things never get better, we forever
 servin Ebekenezer, since the days of our ancestors
 Slaves to a mad pleasure, building great architectures
 Sharp dressers, smart professors
 Start my lecture, I build lyrics like a art director
 Show it to you like the film projector
 Blessed are those who struggle, from day to day we all hustle
 Comin home with sore muscles, and scarred faces
 Scuffed knuckles, we all share the same trouble
 Seperated couples, sometimes it seem like
 there's no escapin, the clutches of Satan
 Spendin years in state pens, awaitin patient
 Dreams of a scholarship, ended by a hollowtip
 Politics and number slip
 Chorus
 Once, shoved in ships, now we Bloods and Crips
 Thugs with clips, niggaz who love the clicks
 Hit the clubs and shit, so they can rub their hips
 Hugs and flicks, niggaz with drugs and whips
 Cash Rules this Rotten Apple, they got a worm in it
 Corrupt sinners, in my man's jeep
 with the windows tinted, sippin Guinness
 Observin all the clinics, and liquor spots
 They make me lick a shot through the rooftop
 I never seen the glory
 In the ghetto it's the same story
 Ciggarette butts and cold coffee, black faces
 and white mouths, they cry out, for the White House
 Ain't no wealth shared, it's welfare
 and poor health care, self scared
 It's senseless, the way they got our black princess
 on public assistance to end our existence
 Chorus
 It's a blessing... to struggle
 It's a blessing...
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 Yeahhyeahhh, it's a blessing, just a blessing
 It's a blessing... *fades